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Claude gains skills for tasks
ALSO : Manus AI releases new agent system
Geoffrey NICHIL
October 17, 2025
News of the day
1. Anthropic's Claude now features 'Skills,' a module system allowing it to automatically select prompts for specialized tasks, enhancing efficiency and autonomy. → Read more
2. Manus AI introduces Manus 1.5 and Manus-1.5-Lite, their most capable AI agent systems yet, enhancing autonomous capabilities for complex tasks. → Read more
3. OpenAI launches 'AI for Science' to build AI systems for scientific reasoning, aiming to speed up discoveries in physics and math.→ Read more
4. Google's DeepSomatic AI tool uses convolutional neural networks to accurately identify cancer-driving mutations, improving precision medicine and treatment planning. It's now openly available. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
Anthropic unveils Skills, a system that allows Claude to dynamically load, at the right time, instruction sets, scripts, and resources to perform specialized tasks. In other words, we’re moving from prompt tinkering to a true tooling logic. It’s a strong step toward making real-world use cases ; like spreadsheets or document layout ; more reliable, without turning every request into a text-based guessing game.
Concretely, Skills are composable and portable, and they work across the Claude app, Claude Code, and the API. They’re available for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with admin-side activation in team environments. Anthropic is already releasing ready-to-use Skills for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF, which can be customized to fit each context. Claude also indicates which Skills are active during editing, improving operational transparency. Finally, a feature that sends prompt libraries to the archives.
What really matters is the architecture. Claude scans available Skills, loads only what’s needed, and can execute code when that’s more reliable than text generation. The progressive disclosure principle allows it to stack large amounts of context without overwhelming the window ; exactly what’s needed for business workflows.
The first highlighted use cases; from Box to Notion, Canva, and Rakuten; confirm the focus on real work. In short, Skills represents a clear step toward truly useful workplace agents, aligned with the broader shift toward contextual and governable assistants.
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